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HUTTONIAN THEORY. 



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I fhall mention only 



other, which 



was difcovered by Lord Webb Sey 



my 



If, at the foot of the high 



mountain 



and 



f 



Ingleborough, in Yorkfliir 



As we went along 



J, 



the Aflcrig road from Inglcton, about a mile and 



half f 



the 



opening appeared 



fide of the hill, on the right, about one hun 



dred y 



fr 



the road, formed by 



larg 



ftone, which lay horizontally, and was fupported 

 by two others, itanding upright. On going up 



th 



we found 



was th 



th of 



fmall cave, the ftone lying horizontally, being 



part of a limeftone b 



itoiie! 

 fchift 



I 



d th 



upright 



tical plates of a primary argillaceous 

 The limellone bed, which formed the 



IS nearly horizontal, decli- 

 \ the fchillus nearly verti- 

 ilretching from north-well by welt, to fouth- 



f of th 



cave. 



the fouth-eaft 



eaft by eaft. The fchift us, though 



tad with the limcftone, feemed to 

 thing 



to contain no- 

 calcareous, and did not effervefce with 



cids in the flighteil deg 



As th 



cave IS 



cold wind, 24° b 



the foot of Ingleborough 

 w the temperature of the 



external air, which iffued from the mouth of it, 

 might very well be fuppofed to come from the 

 ininoft recefles of that mountain. Ingleborough, 

 which confifts entirely of ftrata of limellone and 

 gnt, nearly horizontal, and alternating with one 

 another^ rifes to the height of 1800 or 2000 feet 



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